Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 10:38:07 04/28/01
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On April 28, 2001 at 11:36:59, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >Dear prof. Irazoqui, > >During the past few weeks all chess enthousiasts and chess computer fans were >delighted to hear about the Braingames qualifier, to produce a ‘challenger’ to >play Vladimir Kramnik in a serious match. Organisation was given to you, a >pretty easy to understand decision as you have a lot of experience in organizing >a chess computer tournament. I know you since several years as a fine person, >unbiased and with a lot of understanding concerning chess programs. I always >have been an admirer of your work, especially the famous Cadaques Tournament. > >Needless to say I was stunned to hear that Chess Tiger, currently one of the >strongest chess programs, was not even invited to participate in this qualifier. >I tried to get information about the ‘why’, but up till now nobody has given any >specific argument why Chess Tiger could not play there. To exclude such a strong >program is, of course, very strange (to say the least). Several people have >asked me why Chess Tiger is not participating. I only could say ‘I don’t know, >sorry’. > >Suppose there will be a qualifying event amongst human players to bring about a >new challenger for Kramnik. Wouldn’t it be very strange if the organisers of >such an event would say to Anand ‘sorry, you can’t compete’? Nobody would >understand that. As in this case nobody understands your decision why you >refrain from letting Chess Tiger play in these qualification matches. Therefore >I want to ask you, publicly through this letter, to clarify matters and to >present the chess enthousiasts the answers on the following questions: > >1. Why wasn’t Chess Tiger invited to this qualifier? >2. Why did the Chess Tiger team only hear about this qualifier some weeks before >the event started? >3. Why did you refuse to let Chess Tiger play, even though the Tiger team very >willingly cooperated to make the participation of Chess Tiger possible? >4. Why didn’t you try to find a positive solution to this matter? >5. Why did you keep on saying ‘no’, even when it became clear Chess Tiger could >play under the conditions you wanted? >6. Why did you refuse to believe that Chess Tiger could play under your >conditions, the more because you haven’t checked this out yourself? >7. Do you think it is fair to exclude very strong chess programs from such an >event? >8. What proposal was made to the IBM team: Could they play on their own >hardware, or did they have to play on specified hardware? >9. What was the reason IBM declined the offer? >10. Knowing you as a fair person, unbiased and with great achievements for >computer chess, can you now look into a mirror and say to yourself ‘I have been >absolutely fair to all parties and I have been honest to all the other chess >programmers who are not competing now’? >11. I am pretty sure that deep inside you, you will not feel happy about this. >And that you know that programs like Shredder and Chess Tiger should compete as >well. Am I correct in stating this? >12. Now there is a delay in the Fritz-Junior match, is there room for Chess >Tiger in this event? > >I think everybody would appreciate it when you give a public statement and >answer those questions in an honest way. Otherwise people will get the >impression that this qualifier is a pre arranged event, that is not open to all >the strongest chess programs, but only to some of them. It is up to you to >clarify matters and to make clear why Chess Tiger is not playing here. I think >you owe us an explanation. > >You made a clear mistake by excluding Chess Tiger from this event. That is my >opinion and I know many people will agree with me. Still, making mistakes is >human, it can happen to everybody. Truly great people are those people who admit >they made a mistake and correct it. You are still able to correct this mistake, >too. By allowing Chess Tiger to play in the qualifier. > >I ask you to give the answers to these questions, questions that many people are >wondering about. And that you correct your mistake and let Chess Tiger play in >the qualifier. > >Sincerely yours, > >Jeroen Noomen Well as you know Jeroen, the chess world is everything but honest. For one I never did get the credit I deserved. And many people try to keep it that way. At least your team does get some suport, while I have to fight windmils like Don Quichotte I even could speak of a strange matter about Bagriov wich turned out realy strange when you think about it.
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